by Greg T. Spielberg Come the first day of school, roughly 600 Oakland County (Mich.) students will be tossing Chinese textbooks into their backpacks on the way to class. Over the past two years, the number of high schools offering Chinese has jumped from four to 23 out of the 28 districts in this Detroit-metro [...]

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I received an email this morning from a B-school student who, like me, has fallen in love with China. He expressed an interest in my professional background and wrote, “there is much to learn from you and your experience.” This type of correspondence is not unusual; I get about three emails a month from university [...]

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As Andrew Hupert pointed out in his post, China’s Newest First Movers, there’s a budding class of entrepreneurs setting their sights on the China market. These kids are in their 20s and early 30s and have several years of cross-cultural business experience under their belts. They’re also bold, overeducated, and relentless in their pursuits. Their [...]

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